Africa Business News

Malaysia has rejected the latest edition of the ‘standard map of China’ that lays claim to almost the entire South China Sea, including areas lying off the coast of Malaysian Borneo. Tensions have been rising in the strategically important waters as China has become increasingly assertive in its claim despite a 2016 international court ruling that its so-called ‘nine-dash line’ was without merit and superseded by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Malaysia noted the new map, which clearly depicts the nine-dash line, showed China’s unilateral maritime claims and that they overlapped with Malaysia’s claims of its states of Sabah and Sarawak.